Hammarlunda Church
church building in Eslöv Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden
Hammarlunda Church (Swedish: Hammarlunda kyrka) is a medieval Lutheran church in the province of Scania, Sweden. It belongs to the Diocese of Lund.
History and architecture
The presently visible stone church was built at the end of the 12th century, but preceded by two stave churches on the same location. The remains of these were discovered during a renovation of the church in 1960. The oldest part of the presently visible church is the nave. The round tower was built slightly later than the rest of the church. Hammarlunda Church is one of only four churches in the province of Scania with such a round tower, the others being Bollerup, Blentarp and Hammarlöv. The shape of the tower indicates that it originally also served a defensive purpose. Under the base of the tower, the graves of a man in his fifties, a woman and a child were found during a renovation in 1965. These graves are possibly those of the family of the founder of the church.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Hammarlunda Church” as church building in Eslöv Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as church building in Eslöv Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q10516883. Authority coordinates are 55.737, 13.438. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1960 and 1965.
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This entry incorporates text from “Hammarlunda Church” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.